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Campaigner threatened with prosecution by Environment Agency after waterway cleanup (www.theguardian.com)
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[–] 5 points 4 months ago (1 child)

No, removing silt from a river increases flow and so increases downstream flooding.

While it can be justified the default position of wild cat dredging is that its bad. Often done by farmers to move flood water on to other people too.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago

    Aye, it's almost as if that was their purpose because the river had become near stagnant.

    The Environment Agency were clearly doing fuck all, but now that an organisation has done something about it (after multiple complaints to the EA resulting in nothing) they're up in arms. Their press release reads as so flimsy as to be laughable.

    https://environmentagency.blog.gov.uk/2026/06/25/river-roding-work-in-east-london-setting-the-record-straight/

    This isn't just some greedy farmer trying to improve his land not caring about the knock on effects downstream. They clearly put a great deal of thought and planning into what they do and why.

    https://riverrodingtrust.org.uk/

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